DA-131
Need Not Worry: Medium
DA-131 is to be stored in a hermetically sealed, climate-controlled containment locker at Site-█'s Psi-Memetic Archive Wing. The locker must be secured with dual-authentication access (Level 3 clearance minimum) and internal video surveillance.
Interaction with DA-131 must be authorized by the Site Director and only carried out in a memetic shielding chamber, equipped with audio-visual filtration and real-time psychological monitoring.
All testing subjects must undergo baseline cognitive scans and memory pattern assessments prior to exposure. Under no circumstances may DA-131 be read out of order or opened at random. Personnel who inadvertently read a page out of sequence must report immediately for observation and mnestic intervention.
Description:
DA-131 is a black leather-bound journal measuring approximately 24 cm in height and 18 cm in width, containing exactly 131 pages despite repeated physical inspections indicating no visible method of binding or page replacement. The cover bears no title, author, or manufacturing marks, though faint embossed symbols become visible under ultraviolet light. Carbon dating performed on fragments recovered from the journal's damaged spine suggests materials originating from multiple centuries simultaneously.
The contents of DA-131 consist of handwritten entries composed in English, though linguistic analysis has revealed irregular sentence structures and terminology predating their recorded usage by decades or, in some cases, centuries. Subjects reading the journal report that the handwriting gradually begins to resemble their own after prolonged exposure. This effect intensifies the further a subject progresses through the object.
Subjects experience a sense of relaxation after vividly being able to remember positive memories as a result of reading DA-131, though this effect is temporary until reaching approximately halfway through the book, when subjects begin demonstrating severe alterations in personality traits and speech patterns. Several subjects exposed to DA-131 insisted they had "always remembered" all of their events, sometimes within an altered or twisted form. In extreme cases, subjects entirely replaced portions of their identity with information described within the journal, including names, occupations, and familial relationships belonging to unknown persons.
Attempts to skip pages, read sections out of order, or remove pages from DA-131 have consistently resulted in consequences, including temporary language loss and in some documented cases, total personality collapse resulting in diagnosed disorders.
Out of sequence testing has not begun.